Ventilating-gate for car-vestibules.



K. L. BLOOM.

VENTILATING GATE FOR CAR VESTIBULES. APPLICAIION FILED ocT. 25. m5.

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K. L. BLOOM. VENTILATING GATE FOR CAR VESTIBULES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 25,1915.

Patented June 13, 1916.

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TED s KENNETH L. Broom, or HELENA, MONTANA- VENTILATING-GATE non oan-vnsainunns.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 25, 1915. Serial No. 57,898. 7

To. all w item it may concern:

Be it known that I, KENNETH L. BLOOM, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Helena, in the county of Lewis and Clark and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilating-Gates for Car-Vestibules, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gates for car platforms and consists of a gate which may be installed with the usual vestibule doors, whereby the platforms may be safely closed in when the vestibule doors are open.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby car platforms may be left open, so far as circulation of air and sight is concerned, and yet be as safely inclosed as if the vestibules were closed.

The features which I claim as my invention and desire to cover by Letters Patent willbe hereinafter described and succinctly defined in the claims. r

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention in the form of construction which is now most preferred by me.

Figure 1 is a side view of one end of a car having my invention installed thereon. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section taken through a car platform showing my device in the position occupied when not in use.

Fig. 3 is a detail showing one way of secur- F1g. t 1s a perspective showlng the dev1ce from the inner side, in its position of use.. Fig. 51s a plan view showing the relative position of the device and the vestibule door when the latter is closed.

It is a general rule on railroads, where the passenger cars are vestibuled, that the vestibules shall be closed at all times except when open for passengers to board or alight from the cars. This is dictated on principles of safety. If left open, it is possible for a passenger to fall off the platform.

I therefore provide a gate 1, and secure it to close the opening substantially as the vestibule door would, and with this a floor section adapted to cover the steps, so as to extend the platform floor out to the gate, much after the manner of the vestibule door and its trap door. I, however, make these parts, or as much thereof as desired, of open gratings, so as to permit free'circulation of air while at the same time furnishing secure protection. B i

I have shown the gate as hinged upon the hand rod 2 on the end of the car and provided with means for securing it to the other hand rod. This hinge should be of such type that the 'gate may be released quickly when desired and the lock for the swinging end he quickly releasable. The means used for securing the gate is shown in Fig. 3.

The cross bar 10 has a head 11 provided with a'notch 12 adapted to pass over the hand rod 2. A spring actuated pin 13 closes thegap and prevents removal of the gate from the rod. The head 11 has a slot passing pins 40 which connect locking pins 13 with rod 4 which extends between upper' and lower rods 10. By pulling back rod 4 the locking pins 13 are withdrawn.

The steps are covered by a grating 3, which forms an extension of the platform floor. This consists of a central section 30 which is hinged at 32 to the lower edge of the gate soas to fold up alongside the gate,

and side sections 31 of grating hinged to the central section to fold thereon.

The gate is provided with fingers 1 1 placed to sustain the outer ends of the folding floor sections 81. The upper edge of the gate is also provided with means, asthe hooks 5, by which the floor gratings may be secured when swung up.

This device when secured on the hand rods 2 and 20, is outside the closed position of the vestibule door, so that the floor gratings may be secured in raised position with out interfering with the closing of the door.

This condition is shown "in Fig. 5, in which 6 represents the vestibule door.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of Amer- 1. The combination with a platform gate Patented June 13, 1916.

for cars of a floor member adapted to cover the steps composed of hinged sections one section being hinged along the bottom edge of the gate, and supporting fingers carried bythe gate and extending under the other floor sections.

j this gate to the car outwardly of the closed position of the vestibule doors. 3. The combination With a platform gate for cars of a floor section adapted to cover the steps composed of hinged members, one

of which is hinged to the bottom of the gate to swing upwardly alongside thereof, means 10 for hmging one vertical edge of the gate upon a hand rod, and means for securing its other'vertical edge to the other hand rod. Signed at Helena, Montana, this 18th day of September, 1915. g

, KENNETH L. BLOOM.

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. r Washington, D. 0." 

